Steve Jobs

Jobs is the subject of the book. He was an adopted child, which caused abandonment issues. He would later abandon his own child, Lisa, for a time.

Jobs and Steve Wozniak revolutionized the personal computing industry. Jobs would go on to revolutionize many other industries such as that of smartphones and tablet computing.

Jobs was not necessarily a nice person, but he was very focused and passionate. His opinions were very binary in nature. The author states that he will be remembered among the likes of Edison and Ford.

Steve Wozniak

Jobs' former business partner and co-founder of Apple. Wozniak differs from Jobs as he was more of a hardware engineer or hacker. He differed with Jobs' focus on the profit motive and did not approve of some of Jobs' more hostile behavior. Wozniak left Apple before Jobs' ejection.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Lisa was the daughter of...